Afghanistan | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. Development relevance: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data. Statistical concept and methodology: Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Records
63
Source
Afghanistan | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 7.282
1961 7.284
1962 7.292
1963 7.302
1964 7.304
1965 7.305
1966 7.32
1967 7.339
1968 7.363
1969 7.389
1970 7.4
1971 7.432
1972 7.453
1973 7.487
1974 7.526
1975 7.542
1976 7.561
1977 7.591
1978 7.599
1979 7.612
1980 7.588
1981 7.568
1982 7.553
1983 7.537
1984 7.513
1985 7.517
1986 7.519
1987 7.526
1988 7.531
1989 7.533
1990 7.565
1991 7.606
1992 7.665
1993 7.719
1994 7.717
1995 7.712
1996 7.709
1997 7.667
1998 7.642
1999 7.599
2000 7.534
2001 7.446
2002 7.339
2003 7.22
2004 7.069
2005 6.905
2006 6.722
2007 6.53
2008 6.376
2009 6.235
2010 6.099
2011 5.958
2012 5.83
2013 5.696
2014 5.56
2015 5.405
2016 5.262
2017 5.129
2018 5.002
2019 4.87
2020 4.75
2021 4.643
2022
Afghanistan | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. Development relevance: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data. Statistical concept and methodology: Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Records
63
Source